عنوان

Red cosmos :

(Number (ISBN

1603441174 (cloth : alk. paper)

(Number (ISBN

1603441689 (pbk. : alk. paper)

(Number (ISBN

9781603441179 (cloth : alk. paper)

(Number (ISBN

9781603441681 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Title Proper

Red cosmos :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

K.E. Tsiolkovskii, grandfather of Soviet rocketry /

First Statement of Responsibility

James T. Andrews

Edition Statement

First edition

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xviii, 147 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Series Title

Centennial of flight series ;

Volume Designation

no. 18

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Text of Note

Prelude before Tsiolkovskii: Russian rocketry from Peter the Great to the nineteenth century -- Introduction envisioning the cosmos: K. E. Tsiolkovskii, Russian public culture, and the mythology of Soviet cosmonautics, 1857-1964 -- Beginnings, teaching science in a provincial context: Tsiolkovskii's years in the Russian locale, 1857-1917 -- Dreaming of the cosmos: early scientific and technical experimentation in pre-1917 Kaluga, Russia -- Getting serious about rocket flight in revolutionary Russia, 1917-1928 -- Cross-fertilizing futuristic literary genres: utopian science fiction or didactic popular technology in revolutionary Russia, 1890-1928 -- Stalin, Khrushchev, and the spaceman: technology, Soviet national identity, and the memorialization of a local hero in the dawn of Sputnik, 1928-1957 -- Epilogue and conclusion: chudo (wonder) or chudak (crank), the legacy of Tsiolkovskii in the Khrushchev era and beyond 1964

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Parallel Title

K.E. Tsiolkovskii, grandfather of Soviet rocketry

T︠S︡iolkovskiĭ, K., (Konstantin),1857-1935

Aerospace engineers-- Soviet Union, Biography

Astronautics-- Russia-- History

Astronautics-- Social aspects-- Soviet Union

Authors, Russian, Biography

Authors, Soviet, Biography

Science fiction, Soviet-- History and criticism

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Andrews, James T.,1961-

Date of Transaction

20141129072942.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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